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Design-driven with incredibly detailed dials, Farer’s World Timers are practical, stylish and affordable travel companions.
British indie brand Farer was founded in 2015 by four friends with backgrounds in watch retail. Using Swiss-made mechanical movements, Farer offers a portfolio of confident designs with an eccentric British twist and competitive prices, thanks to the brand’s direct-to-consumer approach that eliminates intermediaries. The name Farer, derived from Old English terms like seafarer and wayfarer, links the brand to themes of travel, exploration, and adventure, as the latest trilogy of World Timers stylishly demonstrates. One of Farer’s best-selling collections, the new World Timers catch the eye with their intricate details and textured dials.
The World Timers, first unveiled in 2019, were a design-driven take on the complication, updated again in 2024 with more refined features, a new selection of city names, and a modified Sellita SW330 automatic movement. Farer’s World Timer combines a central 24-hour disc that rotates once every 24 hours with a bidirectional internal bezel. Operated by the crown at 10 o’clock, the bidirectional inner rotating bezel is printed with the names of 24 cities. By selecting a city and aligning it under the 6 o’clock marker, you can consult the time simultaneously in 23 other cities around the world with the 24-hour night and day disc in the centre.
While the dark green Foxe dial already exists, it returns today with a gold PVD case, and the new burgundy-coloured Thorne dial is available with a steel case or a more luxurious gold PVD option. The concave dials of the World Timer reveal a host of details, the result of 40 different manufacturing processes (industry standards typically limit this to around 14). For starters, the wide chapter ring is decorated with a guilloché pattern, polished, and coated with clear lacquer.
The white Arabic numerals and indices are made from Lumicast, solid blocks of ceramic blended with Super-LumiNova, and the 24-hour disc features white blocks for daytime hours and green or burgundy-coloured blocks for the night. A small round aperture cut into the guilloché chapter ring reveals the colour-matched date, and the centre of the dial features raised longitude and latitude lines, with the Northern Hemisphere depicted in a contrasting colour. Other design details, like the bright orange lacquered tip of the seconds hand (a Farer ‘A’), matching the colour of London printed on the bezel and the mint-coloured SLN inserted in the hour and minute hands of the Foxe model, matching the cities and date, attest to the attentive design of these models.
Also decorated with alternating textures, the 39mm case, with its 11mm thickness, 45mm lug-to-lug, and 100m water-resistance rating, features recessed, microblasted case flanks that contrast with the polished sides and brushed satin finishes. The reverse side reveals the Sellita SW331-2 Elaboré grade automatic movement, a modified version of the SW330 that replaces the GMT hand with the rotating 24-hour disc. Beating at 4Hz, the movement stores a robust 56-hour power reserve, and the customised rotor is colour-matched to the world map on the dial.
The Thorne burgundy dial with a stainless steel case retails for GBP 1,525 / EUR 1,725, while the Foxe (PVD) Gold and Thorne (PVD) Gold retail for GBP 1,575 / EUR 1,800. The watches are sold exclusively through the brand’s website, with a wide range of strap options to really make it your own.
For more information, please visit Farer.com.
